Progetto e costruzione eco-responsabile. Processi, Strategie e Strumenti verso la Valutazione Ambientale in Architettura

How the building sector, one of the main culprits of environmental damaging impacts, can actively contribute on a local scale to reach the european purpose of energy efficiency in an eco-responsible way? This research: - analyses instruments, indicators and procedures for the environmental sustainability evaluation available in literature; - according to Agenda 21’s local goals in terms of sustainability and recovery of the existing material and immaterial heritage, identifies the implementing subjects and the operating instruments to promote ecoresponsible actions of intervention on building heritage there where there is still no local legislation to which to make reference, like in Sardinia; - tests and verifies environmental sustainability evaluation systems at urban and building scale by applying specific rating systems and procedures based on the Life Cycle Assessment approach using real case-studies, of which it presents methods and results. In light of the topical issues discussed, the research’s solutions intend to propose an hypothetical path towards the environmental assessment in architecture that could grow from a local to a wider scale.